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Tom Brogan

@tombrogan.bsky.social
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Author of Scotland 101 An Introduction to the National Team and We Made Them Angry Scotland at the World Cup Spain 1982.

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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of the best pieces of writing I’ve ever read was @fraserc69.bsky.social’s parody of Jeffrey Archer’s prison diaries. From the much missed by its handful of readers Cheery Bananas.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Kemp turning “Did you just kill me in plain sight?” into the new “Did you just spill my pint?”
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Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In other news, I just wrote a piece about the lack of robust resistance to the far right. If you’re looking for neutrality, jog on ✊ www.wordupscot.co.uk/2026/09/cour...
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just 3 performances left! A handful of tickets available for each one. Tickets here - www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
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Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
👀 A peek inside the brand new issue of Nutmeg. ✍️ Ex-pro Liam Grimshaw on the purgatory of being a free agent and an offer that seemed too good to be true... Read the full story & 20+ more: 🛒 Order yours: shorturl.at/w9E15 🏬Or buy in these shops: shorturl.at/xYHl7
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My boss at work has just confessed to an addiction to Wham bars.
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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If you wonder why politicians say this stuff, it's to convince people who don't claim benefits that getting benefits is easy, a lifestyle choice. It's neither. So why lie? Because politicians no longer work for us. They work to manage the decline of our society for the billionaires who own them.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Has ‘Take some scalps’ not joined the list of things you can’t say anymore? It’s one of Coisty’s favourite phrases.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Loudest I’ve cheered for a goal all World Cup.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Have we just changed the phrase now to “low sense of gravity”? Thanks to Danny Murphy and Robbie Savage before him.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Me and @kaymarquis.bsky.social went to Edinburgh for a bookshop tour.
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Nutmeg Magazine @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
☀️Have you got yours yet? Issue 40 comes with free sunshine. Possibly. 🛒 Order direct: shorturl.at/w9E15 🏬Or buy in these shops: tiny.cc/a862101 In beach bar or static caravan, the perfect summer read.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Never known a tournament like it for the media's focus on individuals and individual records. Many of which no one, other than the guy going for the record, cares about.
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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Hydration break. #WorldCup #SCOMAR
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Haiti well worth a draw here.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I’m more annoyed than I should be at everyone saying we’re “currently top of the group”.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We can lay off with the “It was 28 years ago since…” patter now.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Cats Protection on Crow Road has added some old Scotland shirts to its display.
Charity shop window with Scotland and England football shirts on display.Charity shop window with Scotland and England football shirts on display.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Class World Cup display at the Cats Protection shop on Crow Road.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Make it so the biggest regret of their lives is winning, and being forced to work, deliver and face scrutiny and accountability for their failures.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Always good to read books in season, so here's a shout-out for Going to the Wire by @tombrogan.bsky.social about dramatic escapes on the final day of the football season, from Spurs in 1975 to Derby County in 2021. Perfect companion for the weekends ahead.
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Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I dusted off my journalistic skills and summoned up lots and lots of courage to write a piece for @glasgowbell.bsky.social about online dating when you’re (nearly) decrepit… www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-down-and...
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The down and dirty of dating in your 60s
When her 20 year marriage ends, Mairi Damer finds herself single in Glasgow. How much has romance in the city changed?
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I find slim pickings these days in 2nd hand shops but picked these two up today.
A Blu-Ray of A Taste of Honey and a DBD of Theatre of Blood. Also today’s Carlisle United vs Gateshead match programme.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A few years ago, I wrote about one of my favourite films. Bud Cort RIP. medium.com/@tombrogan/f...
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Fourteen Interesting Facts About Harold and Maude
Released in late 1971 Harold and Maude portrayed the relationship between the 20-year-old death-obsessed Harold (Bud Cort) and the…
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Neil Cooper @neilcooper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
My thoughts in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social on the enforced closure of Theatre 118, one of Glasgow’s most important grassroots arts spaces. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2584...
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A lazy cat having a lazy morning.
A tortoiseshell shorthair cat lying on a grey sofa.A tortoiseshell shorthair cat lying on a grey sofa.A tortoiseshell shorthair cat lying on a grey sofa.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
On the 96th anniversary of his birth here’s an article I wrote on Les Dawson and his serious novel. tombrogan.medium.com/the-apocalyp...
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The Apocalyptical Novel Written by One of Britain’s Best Loved Comedians
Les Dawson’s 1986 novel A Time Before Genesis puzzled many critics, but it was the comic’s greatest wish he be taken seriously as a writer.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Lloyd Cole and Friends Again at The Old Fruitmarket tonight.
Lloyd Cole in double denim with guitar on stage at The Old Fruitmarket.Lloyd Cole in double denim with guitar on stage at The Old Fruitmarket.Chris Thomson of Friends Again on stage at the Old Fruitmarket.James Grant of Friends Again on stage at the Old Fruitmarket.
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Gail @spacegirlgail.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
One of my oldest friends has gone missing in Thailand. Sharing this on all platforms and would appreciate any reposts
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Connections Puzzle #923 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I'm on the latest Scots Whay Hae podcast talking about my new book on Kenny Dalglish. Great fun chatting to Ali. www.scotswhayhae.com/post/in-the-...
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In The Service Of The King: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Tom Brogan...
For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to returning guest, writer Tom Brogan to talk all about his latest book Dalglish: The Fifty Matches That Made the Player which is published by Pitch Pu...
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Farage in Scotland: it should make our collective stomachs heave that this repulsive and dangerous extremist has come to spread his poison in our country. Anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter My column in the Herald today
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Probably three of the top ten Scotland goals of all time there.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
That was the greatest Scotland game in a long, long time.
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Connections Puzzle #891 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟨🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Wordle 1,613 3/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Vulture Cinematrix No. 602: Nov 18, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2521 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...
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Edgar Wright’s Cinematrix No. 5: November 18, 2025
Can you name an Oscar-nominated Stanley Kubrick movie?
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Connections Puzzle #888 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The BBC Archive has just dropped this fantastic 1969 Marty Feldman documentary. youtu.be/S0it6iARj64?...
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1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
As we've all been talking about Bond today, why not enjoy the opening page of Ian Fleming's classic, "Goldfinger"?
James Bond prowled the isles of the B&Q like a caged tiger. A caged tiger who had somehow got out of his cage and had gone to his local B&Q with his mind set on buying some really nice shelves. Bond knew who he was. What he did. He wasn’t sentimental about it. He disliked killing but accepted it. It was part of the job. He was an instrument, a sanction, a machine. Cold. Efficient. Like a fridge. But a special fridge. A fridge with a licence to kill. What he did, he did for Queen & Country. But DIY was different. That was all for him. 

At last, he found the shelves he’d been looking for. They were good shelves. Taught and firm, like good shelves should be. Bond caressed the shelves gently but confidently, like a hunky panther, caressing some shelves.  Bond’s mind boggled at the things he could put on the shelves when he’d finished putting them up. A bottle. Some spanners. A badly drawn picture of a dog. The options were limitless. 

“I see you’re admiring those shelves Mr Bond,” said a woman’s voice. James turned, drinking in the vision before him like a suave ocelot with a thirst on him. She was petite and elegant with elbows in all the right places, right between the upper arm and forearm, allowing her to bend and pivot her arms apparently at will. 

“You appear to have me at something of a disadvantage Miss…?” 

“Hotspy. Octavia Hotspy. I like a man who can hang a shelf. What say we get out of here so I can go against my employers and help you with your adventure before getting shot about a quarter of the way through the book?”

“Miss Hotspy,” said James, taking out his B&Q discount card, “You read my mind.”
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Connections Puzzle #880 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Tom Brogan @tombrogan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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